A Terrific Movie

Rating: 8/10 (16 February 2006)

I thought this the best science fiction movie I'd seen since Terminator 3. Yes, it has a lot of similarities to Logan's Run, but I thought it was a much better movie and the plot development and resolution went far beyond Logans Run. This movie was attacked universally by the critics in the United States, but so far it's pulled in between $250 and 300 million in Europe. I think the problem was that critics generally don't like science fiction, plus the pace of the movie confused them. The first half of the movie is quiet and dream-like but the last half has a lot of action mixed with romance and even some humor. I think the U.S. critics would have been happier with some kind of a one-dimensional movie. When I saw it in the theater, people actually applauded during the closing credits, which to me, means more than any critics opinion. I saw the War of the Worlds a couple nights later and I thought The Island was clearly the better of the two movies.